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Comment: Are hotel staff getting enough holiday?

Gates Hospitality founder Naim Maadad explains the benefits of letting staff escape. Read more
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Art in Dubai: Going green, the future of dining

The city's diverse culinary landscape is making strides in becoming environmentally responsible — making a difference to staff, customers, and the wider world around them. Read more
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How Faisal Nasser and Khaled Alsaadi are breaking ground for Emirati chefs

The friends and collaborators are carving out a niche in the UAE’s gastronomic scene. Read more
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UAE’s F&B businesses feel pinch of higher costs – but how much can they pass onto consumers?

Restaurants and cafes pass on some costs onto consumers, but more could be coming

UAE’s restaurant owners and F&B operators will still have a challenge with rising costs – and not just on food prices alone.

“When you consider Read more

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Dubai: Meet the next generation of Emirati women chefs

Female-owned restaurants are adding to the city’s thriving gastronomy scene.

Restaurants owned by Emirati women are celebrating huge successes in Dubai, adding to the city’s thriving gastronomy scene and blazing a trail for the next generation of local chefs, Read more

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Janie Andrich and Craig Andrich use their phones to look up a digital menu via a QR code on the table in San Pedro Brewing Company on Friday, May 29, 2020, in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles. Restaurants were allowed to open their dining rooms with restrictions today. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

Why QR-code menus are still around

Of all the pandemic-inspired business adoptions, perhaps none is as reviled as the QR-code menus. And yet, it persists.

Early in the pandemic, restaurants ditched physical menus and instead revived a long-sidelined technology, the quick response code. Read more

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Four ways F&B has been impacted by digital transformation

By Murtaza Hashwani, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Deputy Chairman and CEO of Hashoo Group, and Chairman of Hashoo Foundation.

As with every other business sphere, the F&B industry has been changed forever by new technology, with this transformation accelerated by the Read more

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Starting a food business in Dubai? Here are dos and don’ts you need to think of

Tips on everything from targeting your customers to picking the perfect location

Just got out of business school and want to turn your love for food into a restaurant in Dubai? You need to be aware of common mistakes Read more

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Caterer Middle East Awards 2022: Every shortlist and nominee revealed

There are 27 categories based on this year’s nominations, with 270 shortlisted people or teams

The shortlisted nominees for the Caterer Middle East Awards 2022 are now revealed.

More than 1,000 nominations were made in 27 categories and, once again, Read more

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FIFA 2022 is when UAE’s ‘Experience Economy’ can shake up things

The ‘Experience Economy’ – based on selling experiences rather than products – is booming. As the pandemic brought an uptake on virtual experiences, everything from augmented and virtual reality and the Metaverse to cryptocurrencies are being demanded more by Read more

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